Flag: Nigeria Emoji
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What does the Flag: Nigeria emoji mean?
1
The presidential standard of Nigeria, introduced in 1960, featured a red field with a large green shield outlined in white at its center. Strip the flag away and you are left with 🇳 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter N and 🇬 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter G, which the flag sequence binds together.
2
This emoji shows Nigeria’s national flag: a rectangular panel with three equal vertical bands — green, white, green. The stripes share the same width ↔️.
The green stands for Nigeria’s forests and rich natural resources, while the white stripe symbolizes peace.
Also Known As
- 🇳🇬 Nigerian Flag
Apple Name
- 🇳🇬 Flag of Nigeria
Unicode Name
- 🇳🇬 Flag: Nigeria
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🇳🇬 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F1F3 U+1F1EC
Shortcodes
- works in Slack
- works in Github
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%87%B3%F0%9F%87%AC |
| Punycode | xn--k77hna |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 87 B3 F0 9F 87 AC |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83C\uDDF3\uD83C\uDDEC |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f1f3\U0001f1ec |
| CSS | \01F1F3 \01F1EC |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F1F3}\u{1F1EC} |
| Perl | \x{1F1F3}\x{1F1EC} |
| HTML hex | 🇳🇬 |
| HTML dec | 🇳🇬 |